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Calculators
Calcoolate
Coolmath.com - Online Graphing Calculator - Graph It! (http://www.coolmath.com/graphit/)
e-Tutor : Graphing Calculator (http://www.e-tutor.com/et2/graphing/)


Instacalc Online Calculator (http://instacalc.com/)



Cool and Useful Maths Sites
The Math Forum @ Drexel : Student Center (http://mathforum.org/students/index.html)
Math-tutorial index
Ask Dr. Math - High School, College +



Calculus
A history of the calculus
The History of Calculus
Calculus (Wikipedia)
The Calculus Page
Calculus Homepage



Numerical Integration
Numerical Integration (Wikipedia)
Newton-Cotes formulas (Wikipedia)
MathWorld : Numerical Integration



Chaos and Fractal Geometry
Fractal
Julia and Mandelbrot Sets
Fractal Lessons



Spirals in Nature
Logarithmic spiral (Wikipedia)
The Geometry Junkyard
Logarithmic Spirals
Fibonacci numbers in nature
Logarithmic spiral (Wolfram MathWorld)
Astronomy Picture of the Day: 2003 September 25: Logarithmic Spirals Isabel and M51



Famous Mathematicians
Indexes of Biographies
Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
Websites Relevant to the History of Mathematics
Biographies of Women Mathematicians



Finding out about logarithms and mathematicians associated with their development?
. Try The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Look in the "Biographies Index" and type keywords such as "logarithms" into "Search the archive".
. Search using keywords such as "logarithm" and the names of the mathematicians in Wikipedia.
. Also search in The History of Computing Project.
. To find "Applications of logarithms in today's mathematics", try an Internet search using the keywords "logarithms" and "applications".
. Searching Tips: Your results will improve if you use Advanced Searching techniques.
. Joost Burgi is also known as Jobst Burgi and Joseph Buerghi. You may find better results in different search directories using logarithm or logarithms.



Finding out about Gauss?
. Try The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Look in the "Biographies Index" and follow links from this page.
. Try The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Look in the "Biographies Index" and type keywords such as "Gauss" into "Search the archive". Search using keywords such as "Gauss" Wikipedia.



Euler
Leonhard Euler
Indexes of Biographies
Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Leonhard Euler



Euclid
Euclid of Alexandria
An Introduction to the Works of Euclid with an Emphasis on the Elements



Escher
Tour: M.C. Escher - Life and Work


Optical Illusions
Famous Optical Illusions
Mighty Optical Illusions



Senior Secondary Mathematics links generated by EdNA Online



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